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Casey Droege had an idea to create an arts economy in Pittsburgh. The artist, curator, and consultant started Small Mall, a storefront concept selling affordable.
A conversation with poet Yona Harvey
In poet Yona Harvey’s latest collection, “You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love” (Four Way Books), several poems feel equal parts composition and collage. And there’s a reason for that.
The 26 poems explore everything from parenthood to America’s legacy of racism. Most are more conventionally laid out. But Harvey says she considers all her work collaborations of a sort. In the case of “Performance Perm / ‘I’d Rather Be A Blind Girl,” it s as a kind of communion with the late blues singer Etta James.
“Something told me